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- Written by: Alexey Kopchinskiy
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I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. My father’s lineage came from Zhytomyr, while my mother’s traced back somewhere near Poltava. My grandmother didn’t like to talk much about her past—it was, evidently, quite difficult, and included experiences such as the Holodomor. Because of that, she was obsessively devoted to feeding every household member, especially the youngest, a group I was part of for some time.
Fate swept me to Moscow and handed me a Russian passport. I never asked for it, and to this day I still can’t forgive her for it. In my defense, I was moved there at a very young age, and truthfully, it wasn’t really me who was moved but rather my father, who was relocated to Moscow for work.